Jaguar Land Rover has teamed with CloudCar to improve smartphone integration with the automaker’s new InControl infotainment and connectivity platform.
Known as ‘justDrive,’ the enhanced system allows drivers to plug in their smartphone and control certain mobile apps via voice control or the infotainment touchscreen interface.
Known as ‘justDrive,’ the enhanced system allows drivers to plug in their smartphone and control certain mobile apps via voice control or the infotainment touchscreen interface.
The technology uses a plain-speech recognition engine that promises to allow drivers to communicate naturally, rather than using short syntax commands that have been the source of frustration with many existing voice-input systems.
“JustDrive’s intelligence takes care of finding the best results for a user’s request from among the many applications and services that it has aggregated,” Jaguar Land Rover claims. “So instead of the driver having a separate fuel search app, they can simply ask justDrive for directions to the closest gas station.”
The system will initially work just with Apple devices running iOS 8, however Jaguar Land Rover will add Android support from early 2015.
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